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Breinlich, Holger; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Temple, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the ’hard problem’ of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and...

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The Bali Trade Facilitation Agreement and Rulemaking in the WTO: Milestone, Mistake or Mirage?

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

under auspices of the WTO, part of a small package of decisions centering on matters of interest to developing countries … implications of the TFA experience for the prospects for new rule-making and cooperation on regulatory matters in the WTO. The TFA … illustrates both the potential and the difficulty of negotiating generally applicable stand-alone agreements in the WTO and …

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Income inequality, decentralisation and regional development in Western Europe

Pike, Andy J; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tomaney, John; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals in the European Union (EU), it addresses...

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The Consequences of German Economic and Monetary Union

Burda, Michael C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper analyzes some of the consequences of economic and monetary union of the two Germanies. Particular emphasis is given to the real implications for the supply side of the German Democratic Republic and for resource flows between two economic regions.

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The Role of Human Capital Investments in the Location Decisions of Firms

Matouschek, Niko; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We explore the role of human capital investments in the location decisions of firms. We show that whether human capital investments act as a force for or against concentration depends on who is undertaking them and whether they are industry- or firm-specific. We also discuss the empirical...

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Economic Geography and the Role of Profits

Picard, Pierre M; Thisse, Jacques-François; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In modern economies, the amount of profits distributed to shareholders is far from being negligible. We show that the way profits are distributed among agents matters for the space-economy. For example, the existence of mobile rentiers is sufficient to make the symmetric configuration unstable...

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Strategic Public Provision of Local Inputs for Oligopolistic Firms in the Presence of Endogenous Location Choices

Walz, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We develop a model in which two regional governments compete for a mobile oligopolistic firm by publicly providing local inputs. The central mechanism of our model is the interaction of an agglomeration advantage (partial non-rivalness of the local input) and an agglomeration disadvantage (fixed...

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Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms

Del Gatto, Massimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pagnini, Marcello - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...

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Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe

Del Gatto, Massimo; Mion, Giordano; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In models with heterogeneous firms trade integration has a positive impact on aggregate productivity through the selection of the best firms as import competition drives the least productive ones out of the market. To quantify the impact of firm selection on productivity, we calibrate and...

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Microfoundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of micro-foundations, based on sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms. For each of these three categories, we develop one or more core models in detail and discuss the literature...

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